State Farm agent Jennifer Bourne will host a Back-to-School Bash on August 21 for local students and family members to celebrate the end of summer before as they head back to the classroom. The event, held at Bourne’s office at 1681 Gallatin Pike N in Madison (located behind Olive Garden), will feature food, music, games, a school supply giveaway, and end with a drive-in style movie. The evening starts at 5:30pm with: Backpacks/school supplies distribution Food truck/snacks/drinks Music Bounce house and games Starting at 8:00pm, a family-friendly Disney movie will be shown in the office parking lot. In case…
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CHICAGO – HBCU Digital Network, an entertainment and lifestyle streaming network, will be officially launching its digital platform HBCUDigital.com along with a mobile app and OTT platforms this Fall. The minority owned and operated HBCUDigital.com will deliver live events, programming, and exclusive live coverage of some of the biggest games around HBCUs, featuring the tagline, “This Is Home.” “We are thrilled to bring HBCU fans and audiences more live and on-demand content than ever before through virtually every platform,” said CEO & Founder Adam Powell, an NCAT alumnus. Launched in beta last year, the on-line platform will provide TV-quality broadcasts of HBCU…
DETROIT, Mich — Detroit-based Automation Workz Institute, Inc., the nation’s only Black tech diversity consulting and upskilling institution, today announced the close of $10 million growth financing to drive the expansion of their cybersecurity, network engineer and development certification courses to people of color across America. Game-changing funding will increase people of color access to Automation Workz programs 30 percent of Automation Workz graduates have received six-figure job offers “The best social justice program is a job, especially a high-paying high-demand tech job” – Automation Workz CEO & Founder Ida Byrd-Hill Focusing on careers in network engineering, cybersecurity and IT/tech, as a post-secondary vocational school, Automation…
NASHVILLE, TN – Angel Miller, a regional director in the Upper Cumberland Region of the Department of Children’s Services (DCS), targeted several longtime employees, suspended three, terminated three, one twice, and pressured four others to resign—all in the past two years. Miller had no comment. Sarah Shepherd was a team leader in the Clarksville office who resigned in 2020. “I left because she (Karmen Davis) wouldn’t stop trying to get me to discipline people,” Shepherd said. Miller hired Davis in late 2019 and she quickly became Miller’s confidante and right hand. ”Karmen Davis is basically Angel’s snitch and she lies…
NASHVILLE — Gov. Bill Lee announced an executive order today that will make all local school district mask rules optional. The governor called the recent surge in Covid-19 cases an “adult problem.” But this doesn’t match data produced by his health department<https://www.tn.gov/health/cedep/ncov/data/hospitalization-data.html>, which shows that children account for 2% of hospitalizations statewide and coronavirus cases among school-age kids have spiked 950%<https://fox17.com/news/local/tennessee-school-aged-children-with-covid-19-last-14-days-up-950-in-just-over-a-month>. Sen. Jeff Yarbro, the Senate minority leader, said Gov. Lee’s order “plays politics” with the safety of Tennessee children. “School systems across Tennessee are already reporting huge Covid-related absences, and the National Guard is activating to help understaffed hospitals…
By Tristan Wilkerson, Think Rubix, Managing Principal Let me first say, I love my grandma. I don’t know anybody who doesn’t love their grandma. And yet, we live very differently than the generations that have come before us. The 21st century looks different for entrepreneurs, in particular entrepreneurs of color. And, as the digital global economy evolves, we are learning that entrepreneurship and enterprise are still your best shot at prosperity, systems change, and social equity. We may live differently than Grandma did, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we live better. And this is our challenge – to make tomorrow more than…
By Azi Paybarah and Dan Levin As the Delta variant fuels a new coronavirus wave, particularly in areas with underwhelming vaccination rates, Tennessee on Tuesday became the latest state where a governor has undermined efforts by local school districts to require students to wear masks as the new school year approaches. Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican, signed an executive order on Tuesday essentially gutting any school district’s effort to require its students to wear masks. According to the order, a student’s parent or guardian “shall have the right to opt out of any order or requirement” that the student “wear a face covering” at school,…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TN Tribune) – Concerns about the Covid-19 delta variant are impacting blood drives throughout the region, leading to a reduction in the already strained blood supply. Since the beginning of the month, a number of businesses and organizations have reconsidered holding their planned mobile blood drives with Blood Assurance. As a result, nearly 39% of scheduled August donors have either cancelled or not shown up. As of Monday, there is less than a three-day supply of O-positive, O-negative, B-positive and B-negative blood in the Blood Assurance service area. “We encourage donors to schedule donations at our fixed centers…
HOWARD UNIVERSITY CONTINUES SOUTHWEST CAMPUS REAL ESTATE STRATEGY TO REVITALIZE THE GEORGIA AVENUE CORRIDOR WITH NEW, MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT ADJACENT TO MAIN CAMPUS. Howard University has selected a team of private real estate development firms to construct a 260,000-square-foot laboratory and office building located at what will become the northwest corner of Georgia Avenue and Bryant Street NW, adjacent to Howard’s main campus in Washington, D.C. The National Research Center for Health Disparities will be a privately developed and funded project designed to attract pharmaceutical companies and biomedical research organizations that are focused on finding solutions to chronic illnesses, particularly those…